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Once you have CWM installed then all you have to do is flash a zip to root. Link is in my Sig. Go to post 4.

I know that but I wanted to use mobile uncle tools to install cwm. This would save me having to use the tool tillaz supplied for flashing cwm. I was wondering if there was a way to root without cwm recovery. I can do the other way but it is less convenient.

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Does everyone with a V5 suffer from a rattling flash? Is it a common problem?

Yep mine rattles, common issue it seems. I tried a bit of electrical tape around the flash edges, helped a little bit...

Now with regards to my damn GPS. I flashed the new rom, first time I launched Gmaps it showed the blue arrow and ever since then approximate location via Data connection has worked every time, unless I turn on EPO assistance in which case it does not.

HOWEVER, I went outside restarted the app got a lock fine and I continued getting locks out of me bedroom window for the rest of yesterday evening. Then today I start the app walk out my house NO BLOODY LOCK. I try all the way to work on the bus....NO LOCK. Come out of the tube and try in central London....NO LOCK.

This is exactly what used to happen on the old rom, like locking would work for a bit after i'd changed some settings or ran a gps tool, then the next day it just completely stops working...

This is damn annoying, although not as bad now as at least location over data works. Anyone got any ideas?

Also on this new rom using nova launcher I find the buttons can be unresponsive at times.

How is the rom working for everyone who has flashed by the way? Any one still got GPS issues in google maps?

Also anyone know how to get your network name to display in the black status bar? Mine doesn't appear

And can someone try the new video feature in instagram? Doesn't seem to work on mine :-(

Open Mobileuncle Tools on your phone. Give it root permissions if its your first time!

Click on "Recovery Update". You should see the file you copied across earlier in there, under the "Recovery File in SDCard section. Select it.

Select Yes to "Are you sure flash recovery" and again Yes to "Into Recovery Mode"

and that should be it - it should do it's thing and it should install CWM Recovery and boot into Recovery for you to do your first Nandroid backup!

It's very straightforward, hope that is enough detail?

just done mine using mobileuncle , well that was very easy , done a backup , checked it boots into cwm with vol up and power on and it does , spot on , this got to be another big plus for the vowney , custom roms must be coming think and fast soon , well we hope. Fixed my slight rattle on flash , took rear cover off and put a tiny drop and super glue at bottom of lense waiting for glue to go off, put back on and no more rattle.
Edited June 21, 2013 by blaster99999

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Tillaz, do you have any idea why my GPS still doesn't work? Everything was working after I flashed the rom yesterday, now I cant get a lock at all after trying all day! No settings we're changed at all, just woke up tried it and it stopped working. Although location via data is still working fine. I even tried some GPS Fix apps, nothing gets a lock

Edited June 21, 2013 by Sere83

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Tillaz, do you have any idea why my GPS still doesn't work? Everything was working after I flashed the rom yesterday, now I cant get a lock at all after trying all day! No settings we're changed at all, just woke up tried it and it stopped working. Although location via data is still working fine. I even tried some GPS Fix apps, nothing gets a lock

Tried the new updated rom.. And the my mic problem got worse. Now when I talk there's back ground snow that makes it even harder for people to hear me.

Also regarding GPS. I checked and still no gps.conf file so there's been no fixes in the GPS department, which I kind of expected because this is a Chines rom for a Chinese phone. However I followed the gps tutorial but this time didn't load up faster GPS, instead I used my G300 gps.conf file, and in GPS tester the accuracy was really good, again inside 15 feet. I think the GPS on this phone is pretty good but it needs a rom that can utilise the GPS in google maps, because I couldn't get lock at all in google maps.

I personally am going back to a nandroid back up I made just before I started until something can be worked out.

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I just got my wife the Acer Liquid E2 Duo and I am blown away with its performance. This phone looks like it has similar specs for less, ordered one, looking forward to having a play when it arrives. Very interesting thread this one!

i have quite a few more things that can be tested so will upload them as patches when i have more time ;)

Hey Tillaz, tired to flash this twice but keep getting an installation aborted (bad) Error. :-(. Any ideas what the problem is? I already tried re-downloding and re-transferring to card and renaming etc

Edited June 22, 2013 by Sere83

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Hey Tillaz, tired to flash this twice but keep getting an installation aborted (bad) Error. :-(. Any ideas what the problem is? I already tried re-downloding and re-transferring to card and renaming etc

Have you definitely got the full file? My download was cutting out and only giving me part of the file which gave me that error.

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Hey Tillaz, tired to flash this twice but keep getting an installation aborted (bad) Error. :-(. Any ideas what the problem is? I already tried re-downloding and re-transferring to card and renaming etc

I have the same problem . Have downloaded with both windows and Linux, and can open the file and see the structure, but get the error in Cwm.

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Have you definitely got the full file? My download was cutting out and only giving me part of the file which gave me that error.

Yeah I downloaded the full file twice with chrome and transferred it twice to to SD card, both around 231 mb, tried renaming too, neither flashed. Have you managed to flash? What browser did you download it with?